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@Medic_alert
The requirement of a PSN account and the limit of 1 per user definitely helped prevent scalping.

I want to buy it from Target for that 5% off! It isn't much, but it covers 2/3 of sales tax, which is good for me.

Let them eat cake!!!

@Yousef-
Ohio. It's gerrymandered to hell.

If it weren't for California (and the European Union), a lot of the U.S. would be so much worse than it is now. Good ol' California often passes sensible laws that companies follow and apply across the whole country since it is the most populous and powerful state.

Just recently California passed the Click to Cancel law. My backwards state won't ever do anything like that, so I'm hoping we get the benefits of California's law.

Remember, if you buy from scalpers, you are the reason scalpers exist.

$1 from me for every hour of new recordings!

As a financial analyst (though, not for a gigantic international entertainment company like Sony), I think Sony should have just eaten the price increase from the weakness of the yen.They would have made a lot more money from software and services than they are now and, even more importantly, wouldn't cede ground to a competitor, which will cost them exponentially more over time.

From the start, I said Sony had an opportunity to either make $10 or $0 from me. Luckily, they made the right decision for both of us.

Sony had the choice to either get $10 or $0 out of me and they chose wisely.

I knew there had to be a reason I decided against the Astro Bot controller! One of each of these, please!

I want to own this game, but I am still waiting for the price to get quite low, since I already bought the game on PS3 and again on PS4.

@MrMeeeseeeks @AhmadSumadi

Indeed very weird to be complaining about PlayStation ticking all the boxes.

You love to see it.

As a long-time member of the PC community, I apologize for our excessive whininess. I am embarrassed.

Remember, if you buy from scalpers, you are the reason scalpers exist.

Days Gone deserves better than it got. If this is our opportunity to show enough interest to get a sequel, so be it!

@RoomWithaMoose
Perhaps you forgot most gaming PCs are also beholden to Microsoft?

Regulators were definitely right to try and block Microsoft buying up more of the industry. They don't need to buy their way to the top in every industry they exist in.

@zimbogamer
I'd be more concerned for Sony if they sold the PS5 Pro at a loss.

@Sanquine
I trust Colin, but that figure seems unbelievable.

Surely, they are including the price of acquiring the studio in that, but maybe not. The game has been in development for eight years, which is why it presumably seemed like the game was designed for eight years ago.

There sure are a lot of people who think serialized sequels (as in sequels that continue a singular story) should sell more than the preceding part, for some reason. That doesn't make sense. I would think the ceiling for Ragnarök, all else being equal, is the number of copies sold of the first God of War game.

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is another recent example of this silliness. Do people actually believe more people will play Rebirth than those who played Remake? Use your noggins!

3:1 does not seem like enough.

@johncalmc
The price point wasn't silly. Not everything has to be free-to-play and loaded with microtransactions.

I hope there is an upgrade path. If not, I'll pass. $10 or nothing. Sony's choice.

The game was far better than it got credit for. Maybe if the remaster does well, we'll get the sequel we deserve!

The answer to the headline question is two-fold:
1) Because Sony likes money
2) Because people will buy them

Not everyone buys PS4 games for their PS5 and an opportunity to sell to new customers is one worth exploring when you're in business

I know there are underhanded ways around it, but PS Direct does have some limitations that make scalping more difficult. I hope that works.

If you buy from scalpers, you are the reason scalpers exist.

@Grumblevolcano
That would be cool. Days Gone is highly underrated.

Could one of the causes, or perhaps the main cause, be that Square Enix's expectations were characteristically unrealistic?

This update is soooo good! I found the game very fun before, but now it's even more fun!

If there is an upgrade path for $10 or less, I'm interested.

That headline is a mouthful. The first three Darksiders games are awesome! (I didn't play Darksiders Genesis, so can't speak to that.)

One thing I think the game does need to improve, and I am being really nitpicky here since the game is near-perfect, is the way costumes are handled. You put on a costume and enter a level, all is fine and dandy, but many levels have a tool/device that you equip. When you equip those, you revert back to standard Astro. So, I find you are not in costume much of the time. It's a minor thing, but when you are excited to try out a costume then jump in a level and the costume goes away, it makes the heart sink a bit.

I am 15 hours in and near the end. I have 100% completed every level so far and truly love the game. I have not encountered anything unpolished, which itself is a fantastic achievement. These patches might be clearing up rare minor issues, but I also strongly suspect Team Asobi is slipping in some surprises as they did regularly with Astro's Playroom.

Good for Astro Bot and Team Asobi. The game is incredible.

Also, good for Mat who I see is not using Twitter anymore, presumably because Elon is a clown.

Unfortunately, consumers do it themselves. If you ever wondered why games are microtransaction hellscapes now, it's because of fools who vote for it with their wallets.

@twenty90seven
"You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie, but you lie." - Star Trek

Computer explodes

@nomither6
The browser comes with great risks and that's why it's gone. Of course, there are always security risks and considerations of that nature, but I am confident Sony expects Microsoft to pull some browser-based Game Pass shenanigans, too.

@Lastochka
100%

@MikeOrator
Right. People going nuts over the price and downplaying the differences strike me as the sort of people who dont't do their research. Sad.

Isn't the whole point that the PS5 Pro looks like PS5 games in fidelity mode, but you ALSO get the performance of performance mode? Mark Cerny said as much. Comparing screenshots, even those from a compressed video, shouldn't yield much of a difference when comparing fidelity mode on PS5. How games run will be the difference and you can't see that in screenshots. People sure can be clowns.

There is a $600 Xbox Series X with 2TB of (slow) storage. It does have a disc drive, but expecting a console with far better specs to be sold for the same price or less is asinine.

"Lack of competition." What a bunch of clowns. Microsoft has a $600 2TB Xbox Series X. How is the 2TB PS5 Pro also supposed to be $600 with far better specs?

I expected this because they can make far more money per sale selling directly than they can through retailers. I intend to wait for the PS5 Pro, so I can use my Circle card (previously called Red card) and get 5% off. It's not much, but it's something.

@RubyCarbuncle
You're going to have to elaborate on that (incorrect) position because these consoles effectively are packaged PCs, so perform EXACTLY like a customized PC. That's why a $700 console can perform like a PC that costs much more.

I'm confident my PC will still outperform the PS5 Pro, but my PC also cost 3X the price of the PS5 Pro when I built it. For context, my GPU (Asus TUF Radeon 6900XT OC is $899 right now on sale from the list price of $1,200) at Amazon. It's way stronger than the GPU in the PS5 Pro, but is itself not able to play games without a CPU, storage, RAM, etc.

@Angelus3K
The outrage isn't rightly warranted. The device isn't for everyone and that's fine, but $700 for what it offers is perfectly reasonable. It will have comparable performance to a PC at half the cost.

Nice! I was greatly anticipating this game, so I'm happy it turned out great and is also popular. I'd love more AAA Warhammer 40K games.

@ShadowofSparta
The game is fun, what can I say?

The game is very fun despite the whiny community constantly, well, whining. With each update, the game just gets better and better. Any day now, we'll also hear about the upcoming warbond, too. Yeah buddy!